chambers of commerce and others to develop an innovation culture in business, "says Medlbtikar's Project Coordinator, Dr. Raimund Bröchler at INTRASOFT International."
and projects and developed an innovation culture for many businesses in the MEDA region. It also helped set up innovation organisations that have supported
#and represents a family of green building blocks for making materials and fuels that can compete on both price and performance with oil based alternatives but
As the pulse travels from one temple to the other, it interferes (in a good way) with the areas causing the seizure,
sports gear maker Nike has been collecting used sneakers for some time. The soles of these old sneakers are recycled under the label'Nike Grind
the intrinsic self-repair mechanism in adults. He found that some activity during the disease compensated for cell death at the hippocampus,
the brain structure involved in learning and memory. e showed that a self-repair mechanism is in place during widespread neurodegeneration,
Behind the development is led by a consortium Loufakis Chemicals SA in association with three SMES involved in water engineering,
Meanwhile the proceeds of counterfeitinggo to feed organised crime possibly eventerrorism and result in huge costs in the formof lost tax revenues.
-safeguarding human health and finallyputting an end to a crime which in thepharmaceutical industry alone is estimatedby the World Health Organisation to cost theworld more than 12 billion a year e
In Italy alone, landslides have caused over 5000 deaths and displaced more than 150 000 people during the last 50 years, at an estimated economic cost of#2 billion annually.
Family problems, for instance. I told many lies, my girlfriend was losing trust in me. I become very withdrawn.
We know from scientific literature that these online videogames are highly addictive to certain vulnerable users.
how our Social security system is going to reimburse this kind of treatment: that could maybe take a long time".
This wearable technology will be of great benefit to the sports industry. The biochemical engineers are now looking at integrating their prototype into A t-shirt together with other sensors,
therefore be used against sports doping, or for physiotherapists and trainers to observe the physical state of their athletes.
A new generation of implant will greatly improve the quality of life from many deaf people allowing them to converse in louder conditions.
to listen to music for the first time in 20 years. This is achieved by sending electrical impulses to stimulate the cochlea, the part of the inner ear responsible for hearing.
#The eaves of death for malaria mosquitoes EU-funded researchers have developed three new tools to kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
This has been repurposed for mosquito control using the netting coated with insecticide at one end of tubes that are placed in the walls of the households.
The team calculates a typical household would spend about#1 per person per year over three years for the'eave tubes or bricks'.
##Family filter'stops arsenic in its tracks Arsenic-laced groundwater is a silent but deadly problem affecting the world's poorest nations and a few richer ones as well.
dubbed the amily filter'because of its ease of use and affordability for even the poorest families.
Installation of a trial family filter in Bangladesh. UNESCO-IHE Installation of a trial family filter in Bangladesh.
UNESCO-IHE Arsenic is a slow, undetectable killer found in large tracts of the world's groundwater,
and to keep it simple enough for rural families to install and use. Thus, after five-years under development, the amily filter'was born.
Families on farms or not connected to town water in countries such as Australia, New zealand and Argentina,
where up to 1 000 families in Bangladesh will receive filters to test Out in addition to its own research activities,
For this reason, it has decided consciously not to patent the family filter. t is our hope that the absence of a patent will enable the technology to spread unfettered throughout the developing world,
and there's one in every household. This is real food, with real fresh ingredients, it's just prepared using a new technology."
According to literature on the D-Shape website, the material produced by the printer is"similar to marble"in its constitution.
Kushner believes it could lead to all manner of possibilities in architecture and construction. Not only could it be faster and safer than existing construction methods,
and architecture and puts it into everyone's hands, just like the camera phone made everyone a photographer.
said Joel M. Moskowitz, director of the Center for Family and Community Health at University of California, Berkeley School of Public health.
About 5 in 10,000 adults are diagnosed with glioma in the United states every year, whereas about 10 in a million people develop acoustic neuromas every year.
Many large studies have failed to detect an association between cell phone use and brain tumors. One study of nearly 360,000 adults in Denmark did not find an increase in the number of brain tumors even among those who had been using a cell phone for at least 13 years.
However, as Samet said, THE WHO panel took into account studies that suggested that those who used cell phones did have higher rates of certain brain tumors.
The study found no association between cell phone use and glioma rates except in the group of participants who reported using their cell phone for at least 1, 640 hours in their lifetime without a headset.
a group that has not been studied as much as adults and could at least in theory be more vulnerable to the effects of phone radiation.
but it was challenged by the CTIA-The Wireless Association, a wireless industry trade group. The city eventually reversed it.
it being sold with three-month subscriptions to music and Bollywood movie-streaming services, according to the WSJ
#Why This Collaborative Platform for Musicians Is Drumming Up Big Bucks Steve Martocci goal for Splice is nothing less than to change the course of music creation. e think we can lead an entire new movement in music,
a tech and startup veteran who previously co-founded the messaging platform Groupme. hey just get to focus on making their music.
They were united in their belief that the digital creation process for music was stuck in the 0s. att was an audio engineer for half his life.
I a huge music fan, Martocci says. f you sit at this apex of music and code,
But unlike today, very stringent water restrictions much more severe than any now in placewere impacting residences as well as commercial facilities.
For instance, some households in Marin county, just north of San francisco, were restricted to 44 gallons of water per person per day0 gallons less per day than normal usage.
and have been so successful that many areas of the state are using about the same amount of water today as they were 10 and 20 years ago, even with population growth.
and the country early two billion gallons per day across the countryand save a family of four, on average, $2, 000 in water bills over the lifetime of the toilets, according to the EPA.
#Factory Dairy farms on the Rise in Asia The expansion of industrial dairy farms in Asia could lead to severe consequences for the environment, public health, animal welfare and rural economies, according to a policy paper by Brighter Green.
Collectively will be updated daily by an editorial team with stories and information from the worlds of fashion food design architecture technology and more.
Earlier this week 57 global companies funds and associations including Unilever Ikea Royal dutch shell and Coca-cola Enterprises signed a letter to support a#robust#2030 energy
Built to Lasttherewith explicitly links building efficiency improvements to other key city goals of reducing social inequality
The scalability of Intel architecture enables the intelligence and flexibility necessary for cities across the country to quickly deploy a range of smart city solutions for everything from air
#Scientists grow norovirus stomach bug in a dish University of Florida rightoriginal Studyposted by Morgan Sherburne-Florida on November 13 2014researchers have grown for the first time a human norovirus in a cell culture dish taking a step toward developing medications to treat the stomach
##since it was discovered in 1972â##has been that we can t culture the human viruses in a cell culture dish##says Stephanie Karst associate professor in the molecular genetics and microbiology department at University of Florida College of Medicine.##
That s in part because researchers have not been able to culture human noroviruses so they can test potential treatmentsâ##until now.
and contribute to 56000 to 71000 hospitalizations and 570 to 800 deaths mostly in young children and older adults.
which leads to more than 90 percent of cancer deaths. The work is published in the journal Cancer Research.
A standard pregnancy test for example tests for a hormone produced when a fertilized egg implants into a women s uterus.
and improve the diets of children and adults alike.####There is great interest in the development of objective biomarkers of dietary intake especially biomarkers that can be measured noninvasively##says coauthor Susan T. Mayne professor of epidemiology at Yale university and a developer of the device.##
and the way they usually do things says lead author Curtis Weiss assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of medicine and a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
The authors analyzed the social networks of critical care physicians in the medical intensive care unit (ICU) at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
The assay has been reported in medical literature as an effective marker but is not yet a part of the guidelines for care.
The current way to diagnose infection is a culture but those results take 48 to 72 hours.
and we now have increasing numbers of examples of where single gene mutations can produce the presence of both seizure and migraines in the same patients and families.
A new study shows the girls with a family history of depression respond to stress by releasing much higher levels of the hormone cortisol.
They also have telomeres that are shorter by the equivalent of six years in adults.
Previous studies have uncovered links in adults between shorter telomeres and premature death more frequent infections and chronic diseases.
For the study published in Molecular Psychiatry researchers recruited 10-to 14-year-old healthy girls with a family history of depression
It's the equivalent in adults of six years of biological aging Gotlib says but it's not at all clear that that makes them 18
Exercise has been shown to delay telomere shortening in adults so girls at high-risk girls should learn stress reduction techniques Gotlib says.
or broccoli and orangish vegetables such as carrots even a small part of a child s daily diet reduced bad fats in the body
If cancer markers are found in a cell the circuit could for example activate a cellular suicide program.
To date the researchers have tested the function of their activation-ready sensor in cell culture of human kidney and cancer cells."
#Ebola family is at least 16 million years old University at Buffalo rightoriginal Studyposted by Charlotte Hsu-Buffalo on October 26 2014the family of viruses to
The new study pushes back the family s age to the time when great apes arose.##
In other words it appears the known filovirus family is at least as old as the common ancestor of hamsters and voles.##
The new study builds on Taylor s previous work which used viral fossil genes to estimate that the entire family of filoviruses was more than 10 million years old.
which was recognized in humans in 1967 and implicated in the death of a Ugandan health worker this month.
which was funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Hearing Health Foundation.
They found that in culture these strains exchanged the two metabolites and grew as if they were wild-type staph.
When individual CF staph small colony variants were mixed together in culture they grew like wild-type bacteria.
Likewise co-culture of CF staph small colony variants with normal microbiome bacterial species also enhanced the growth of staph in culture.
Heart disease accounts for one in four deaths every year.####Scientists have thought that fibroblasts are differentiated terminally meaning they can t adopt the fate of other kinds of cells;
##because it causes damaged out of control cells to commit suicide or apoptosis which reduces the likelihood that they will go on to form tumors.##
##The American Heart Association and the National institutes of health funded the work. Source: UNC-Chapel Hillyou are free to share this article under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noderivs 3. 0 Unported license h
In a piezoelectric material pressure compresses its molecular structure much like a child jumping on a bed compresses the mattress.
whether maternal age is important in the accumulation of MITOCHONDRIAL DNA (mtdna) mutations, both in the mother and in the child as a result of transmission.
they took samples of blood and of cells inside the cheek from 39 healthy mother-child pairs.
if it is tinyf there is a severe decrease in mitochondrial molecules during the egg-cell developmenthen the genetic makeup of the child might differ dramatically from that of the mother.
the percentage of disease-carrying molecules that will be passed on to the child. Knowledge about both the maternal age effect and the bottleneck size is useful in family planning. e have some predictive power now
and can assist genetic counselors in advising couples about the chances of mitochondrial diseases being passed to the next generation,
when researchers from the University of Iowa conducted a literature review they found that PTEN mutations show up in 40 percent of breast cancer cases up to 70 percent of prostate cancer cases and nearly half of all leukemia cases.
and can also increase mortality risk.#####Therefore it appears topical antibiotics used in an effort to prevent pneumonia in the ICU are a hazard
and out-of-pocket expenses for people in households below the poverty line in Karnataka India.
Researchers studied roughlyâ#80000 households from 600 villages and found a 64 percent drop in mortality from diseases covered by insurance.
##This World bank study clearly shows how this program benefits the health of the poor in Karnataka##says U. T. Khader the stateâ##s Minister of Health and Family Welfare.##
and public hospitals empaneled by VAS for below-the-poverty-line (BPL) families with little or no access to tertiary care;
automatic enrollment of all BPL families with no annual premiums user fees or copayments; and health camps in rural areas by empanelled hospitals
##The results of this study are important to India as it makes choices on how to make progress towards universal health coverage##says Onno Ruhl World bank Group Country Director for India.##
##The study published in the journalâ#BMJ included more than 82000 households. Since the program was phased covering poor households in the northern part of Karnataka in the first phase before expanding to the rest of the state the study compared the health outcomes of roughly 45000 households from villages that were covered by the insurance to roughly 37000 households
from villages that were covered not by the program.####The study shows that public policy can play a strong role in reducing disparities in health due to socioeconomic status. In villages without insurance the poor had much higher mortality than the rich
but such disparities were eliminated completely in villages with insurance coverage##says Neeraj Sood professor and director of research at the Schaeffer Center for Health policy and Economics at University of Southern California.##
##Rates of early death and illness from chronic conditionsâ##such as heart disease and cancerâ##have increased dramatically in India in the past few decades putting the poor at high risk of not having access to services they need
Type 2 is the form of diabetes once known as##adult onset##in which the body produces insulin that ordinarily would keep blood sugar under control
##and carries significant risks that include death so it is not a realistic solution for most patients.##
##We went to the literature and found an approved drug that does in parasitic worms what we wanted to do in liver cells.##
Their discovery makes it likely that similar drug-related deaths can be prevented in the future. In 1997 troglitazone was approved for use in the United states as one of the first drugs designed to treat type 2 diabetes.
The researchers cite the accumulation of bile acids substances produced by the liver that promote digestion and aid in the absorption of fats as the most likely suspect in the deaths.
If they accumulate in the liver they can cause cell death. Increased bile acid concentrations in the liver may lead to liver damage.
##The research is published online in the journal Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and was presented at a meeting of the International Meeting for Autism Research.
They used the Childhood Autism Rating Scale-Second Edition (CARS-2) to help rate child behavior because of the instrument s flexible usage guidelines.
or guardians information about autism and guidance on using behavioral strategies to improve child skills.
and characterizes the bacteria that cause TB without taking several weeks for bacterial cultures. Laboratory diagnosis of TB using conventional approaches is a long drawn-out process
Plus relying on laboratory culture means using techniques that date back to the 1880s. Metagenomics using the latest high-throughput sequencing technologies
The National Science Foundation the American Heart Association the National Heart Lung & Blood Institute and the National Eye Institute provided financial support for the work.
#Fake platelets could keep you from bleeding to death Emory University Georgia Institute of technology rightoriginal Studyposted by John Toon-Georgia Tech on September 9 2014a new class of synthetic platelet
or by medics in the military we expect this technology could reduce the number of deaths from excessive bleeding##says Ashley Brown a research scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technologyâ
and then go specifically to the site of a serious injury they could help decrease the number of deaths associated with serious injuries.##
The National institutes of health the US Department of defense and the American Heart Association funded the research. Source: Georgia Techyou are free to share this article under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noderivs 3. 0 Unported license C
#Your home s microbiome moves with you In addition to their families and pets people live with millions and millions of bacteria.
The Home Microbiome Project followed seven families which included eighteen people three dogs and one cat over the course of six weeks.
when three of the families moved it took less than a day for the new house to look just like the old one microbially speaking.
Given an unidentified sample from a floor in this study he says we could easily predict which family it came from.
and older adults under research grants from the National Institute on Drug abuse. Marijuana has remained the most widely used illicit drug over the 34 years that MTF has tracked substance use by college students
The age peers of college students that is young adults who are also one to four years out of high school
Due to socioeconomic and gender inequities women in some countries and cultures are not always in a position to negotiate regular condom use so a drug-dispersing suppository can protect against transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections during heterosexual intercourse
or may not be known to the woman. As part of the research Zaveri who earned her doctorate in biomedical engineering at the University of Florida conducted extensive sensory-perception testing to assess acceptability of the suppositories among women.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins and the National Institute on Alcohol abuse and Alcoholism participated in the study.
Johns hopkins university School of medicine s Transplant Biology Research center and a gift from the family of Francesc Gines supported the research.
As many as 70 percent of urinary tract infections in these patients may be preventable using infection control measures such as removing no longer needed catheters resulting in up to 380000 fewer infections and 9000 fewer deaths each year.##
##Fewer catheters means fewer infections fewer days in the hospital and even fewer deaths. Not to mention the dollars saved by the health system in general.##
Researchers are developing a new system that scans a child sâ#fingerprints to track when vaccinations are due
Once the electronic registry is in place health care workers simply re-scan the child s fingers to view the vaccination schedule.
##Armed with the knowledge of what occurs in the digestive systems of preemies in a controlled environment the researchers next aim to discern what happens in the systems of preemies who don t fare as well particularly those suffering from necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). NEC is a devastating disorder in premature infants that causes tissue death in the lining
In a healthy older child s gut Gammaproteobacteria typically are less than 1 percent of the bacteria.
##The National institutes of health the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Foundation for the National institutes of health funded the research.
and the American Diabetes Association supported the research
#See into living brain with lasers and nanotubes By injecting carbon nanotubes into the bloodstream, scientists can use near-infrared lasers to see blood flow in a living animal brain.
surgical removal of the ridge or ring below the aortic valve is one option for improving the child health.
The researchers also conducted a pedigree analysis in a family of 45 Newfoundland dogs to examine the inheritance pattern of the SAS mutation.
The labels work because an array of tiny pillars on the top of a surface effectively hides images written on the material beneath Shyu compares the texture of the pillars to a submicroscopic toothbrush.
when the pillars trap moisture. ou can verify that you have the real product with just a breath of air,
because the pillars were made from materials that preferred adhering to the mold rather than whatever surface they were supposed to cover.
This allowed the pillars to release easily. They are also strong enough to withstand rubbing,
but leaving its three-dimensional architecture intact for study. The refined technique optimizes the CLARITY concept
These factors can make microbicides difficult for a woman to use before sex, researchers says. he effectiveness of an anti-HIV topical drug depends partially on high-enough dosages and quick release,
similar to those used for contraception. The material can accommodate different anti-HIV drugs and the team is testing several others for effectiveness.
says child psychiatrist Joan L. Luby, who directs Washington University Early Emotional Development Program. ut the good news is that
In addition, researchers used two-way mirrors to evaluate child-caregiver interactions because the team earlier research had shown that a lack of parental nurturing is an important risk factor for recurrence of depression.
Even in depressed adults, available treatments and medications are effective only about half the time.
Fifth Edition (DSM-V). This manual contains the American Psychiatric Association most up-to-date official guidelines for diagnosing
Luby now is testing potential parent-child psychotherapies that appear promising for preschoolers with depression
#Cancer drug helps some women get pregnant A new fertility drug, originally developed to prevent the recurrence of breast cancer,
is 30 percent more effective in helping some women become pregnant than one used for more than 40 years, new research shows.
72 became pregnant and gave birth. Of the 374 women who took letrozole 103 gave birth. etrozole works better,
director of the division of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at University of Florida. lomid has been available for fertility treatment for more than 40 years,
Clomid is prescribed often to women with polycystic ovary syndrome as a first step in their treatmentnd that population accounts for about a third of women who seek fertility treatment
therefore have fewer opportunities to become pregnant. HOW THEY WORK Christman oversaw one of the trial sites as one of the principal investigators at the University of Michigan.
Because the drugs were administered in the same wayoth were given for a five-day period at the beginning of a woman cyclehe study was blinded double.
It works primarily in fat or adipose tissue throughout the body, causing estrogen levels in a woman bloodstream to fall.
but because of the increased risks of a multiple pregnancy it would be better and safer if people conceived one baby at a time,
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development branch of the National institutes of health funded the study.
and other homey spots are found in 84 percent of households in the United states, according to a published, national survey.
which would keep it from tapping into resources from surrounding cells and cause its death.
When the scientists disrupted passage through that pore in cell cultures the parasite stopped growing
an estimated 207 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide, leading to 627,000 deaths, according to the World health organization.
Scientists named this family of proteins eat shockbecause they become active when cells are overheated or stressed.
The researchers disabled HSP101 in cell cultures, expecting to block the discharge of some malarial proteins.
#Loss of sleep after divorce can spike blood pressure Divorce-related sleep problems may be partly to blame for significant health problems,
including high blood pressure and even early death, research suggests. n the initial few months after a separation,
People who have persistent difficulties sleeping after a divorce may address the issue by seeking out cognitive behavioral therapy,
and is now pursuing her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Florida. f somebody is going through a divorce and unable to sleep,
whether it a divorce or something else, and this shows how important it is for all of to value sleep
and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development funded the study C
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